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"The American Talleyrand" & "Little Van" |
President Van Buren
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Cottontail was the sister of these 2 good little bunnies in "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" |
(Albert: Who is, uh, Peter Rabbit?)
Flopsy & Mopsy
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At one point this Danish island is only about 10 miles from Canada |
Greenland
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During WWI some in the U.S. called this German dish liberty cabbage |
sauerkraut
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Neil Sheehan was the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg gave these papers in 1971 |
the Pentagon Papers
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King Friday XIII, X the Owl, & Donkey Hodie are some of the characters in his neighborhood |
Mister Rogers
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"The Sage of Springfield" |
Abraham Lincoln
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"Call of the Wild" mongrel who is stolen from California & become a sled dog in the Klondike |
(Albert: Who is White Fang?)
Buck
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Margaret Mead wrote the first & most famous of her books after a field trip to this island group |
Samoa
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This sadistic marquis fought in the Seven Years' War which we assume he enjoyed |
the Marquis de Sade
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1 of Hollywood's unholy trio of gossip columnists, she also wrote "Beloved Infidel" |
Sheilah Graham
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Late conductor known as "Mr. Pops" |
Arthur Fiedler
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"Hero of New Orleans" |
President Andrew Jackson
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Dr. Seuss' good-hearted elephant who sat on a bird's egg until it hatched |
Horton
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Some say this Italian island, famous for its blue grotto, was home to the Sirens of Greek myth |
Capri
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The Cunard liner Carpathia picked up all 700 survivors of this 1912 disaster |
the Titanic
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Editor-in-chief of "Vogue" from 1962-71, she coined the expression "beautiful people" |
(Richard: Who is, uh, Helen Gurley Brown?)
Diana Vreeland
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Reggie Jackson got this nickname for his heroics in postseason play |
Mr. October
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"Our Chet" |
Chester Alan Arthur
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He killed Nag & Nagaina, 2 cobras in a bungalow in Segowlee |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Napoleon's wife Josephine was born on this French island in the Caribbean |
(Richard: What is... Haiti?)
Martinique
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In the 4th century the Goths split into these two groups |
the Visigoths & the Ostrogoths
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This former gunman & Dodge City sheriff became a sportswriter in New York City & died at his desk |
(Jonathan: Who is Wyatt Earp?)
Bat Masterson
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For his work as NAACP attorney this future Supreme Court justice earned the title "Mr. Civil Rights" |
Thurgood Marshall
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"Buffalo Hangman" |
[Applause for Jonathan running the category] (Alex: You were giving us first names until that last one.)
President (Grover) Cleveland
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Bustopher Jones, Growltiger & Old Deuteronomy were felines featured in this collection of poems |
(Albert: Um, T.S. Eliot's, um, I'm gonna say Cats.) (Richard: What is Cats?) ... (Alex: Cats is the musical; the work was called, [*].)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Located off the coast of Spain, they're the 2 largest of the Balearic group |
Mallorca & Menorca
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This 18th century war was named for part of Robert Jenkins' body |
the War of Jenkins' Ear
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Columnist & member of the Algonquin Round Table who was known by his initials FPA |
Franklin P. Adams
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Even though he was "Mr. Republican", he lost the 1952 nomination to Ike |
Robert Taft
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